Train to Busan

Film - 2016

9,0

296.2K

Train to Busan it's a movie with Gong Yoo, Ma Dong-Seok, Jung Yoo-mi, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee Full cast. Directed by Yeon Sang-Ho. Original title 부산행 Genres Action, Horror, Thriller.

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La Prof Dell' Horror

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For me, the discovery of South Korean genius begins above all with this film. More recently I had the opportunity to appreciate brilliant series, among which "Squid Game" stood out for its originality, but it was this work that brought me closer to the gripping Korean horror/drama. The idea of having a zombie epidemic break out inside a train train is effective, cruel and audacious. It is certainly a dynamic that works and scares, playing well on the difficulty of finding shelter, the only possibility is to make do as best as possible to overcome that atrocious ordeal. Siege, contamination, anxiety beyond imagination. Being locked in a moving vehicle, surrounded by infected and hungry dead, triggers a tension that is impossible to stop, indeed, the crescendo is a continuous escalation that leads to destruction. A handful of positive characters will hold sway for much of the story. Among them, father and daughter, who get on that train unaware of the terrible fate that will overwhelm them: a girl with strange wounds on her body will land in that carriage, and shortly thereafter, hell will break loose. The man is an ambitious financial manager, very focused on his career, and decidedly less on his family. Separated, he is traveling to Busan, to accompany the little girl to the place where his ex-wife lives. Little Soo-an is splendid, human, sensitive. That delirious journey will serve to make man understand what is truly important, and her nature will change until the touching epilogue. The inevitable and rapid maturation of a selfish character is truly appreciable, as in a short period of time he will realize what really matters in life. Yeon Sang-ho's direction is incisive and impeccable, like the special effects, which focus heavily on the catastrophic, giving the film an epic touch. The choice to make the zombies blind and dazed in the dark is interesting and will prove particularly useful in the tunnels encountered along the way, Read all

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Giacomo Pescatore

Good zombie film which, in some ways, reminds us of World War Z. Read all

Trains, zombies and cell phones: engaging, but at times it feels like a video game you've already played. of

Bongo

I think it's difficult to make an original zombie film, given that more or less they all present the same clichés of the genre: unfortunately even this (although pleasant) South Korean film fails to avoid the feeling of "already seen", especially due to the story general and for the creation of the zombies, very similar to those of World War Z in terms of movements, to the point that one almost has the sensation of seeing an oriental spin-off of the film with Brad Pitt, with the aggravating circumstance of not offering any context and any explanation of what is happening (also because, obviously, the information on the characters' cell phones is in Korean). Paradoxically, however, the film is completely understandable even without any information because it is so inserted into the tracks of the genre (just to stay on the subject of trains) that there is no need to explain anything: the viewer already knows that people are going crazy due to some virus that revives the dead transforming them into zombies hungry for human flesh who will organize a kind of revolt, and many regards to common sense and logic. The characters, apart from the protagonists, are poorly characterized and mostly reduced to archetypes, if not to real sketches (the strong hero, the teenagers in love, the selfish businessman, etc.), also for effect of a somewhat caricatured acting. Also for this reason the film almost resembles a video game, and as a fan of this latter form of entertainment I say this without the intention of diminishing the film, but simply to convey the idea of some slightly unlikely moments, especially in the central part. (and it takes a lot to be unbelievable in a film that talks about the zombie apocalypse). An element of originality is given by confining most of the film to a train, transforming Read all